Save Guilford County Arts Education
Many communities around the world are cutting funding for arts education even though statistics show art education improves academic achievement and makes for happier children and adults.
Here in Guilford County, North Carolina a group has gotten together to force our local school board to return funding to the arts with Pierce Edgerton and others playing a big part in the effort through tools like the Save GCS Arts blog and website. My thanks and the thanks of Team Blogsboro go out to Pierce and everyone involved.
And for those of you who are leading efforts to restore or save arts education in places other than Guilford County, Team Blogsboro wants to know about your efforts and link to your website so that our thousands of readers from around the globe can learn of your efforts as well. Send an e-mail to idleblogs (AT) yahoo.com and let us know you exist and we'll be happy to send the world your way.
Here in Guilford County, North Carolina a group has gotten together to force our local school board to return funding to the arts with Pierce Edgerton and others playing a big part in the effort through tools like the Save GCS Arts blog and website. My thanks and the thanks of Team Blogsboro go out to Pierce and everyone involved.
And for those of you who are leading efforts to restore or save arts education in places other than Guilford County, Team Blogsboro wants to know about your efforts and link to your website so that our thousands of readers from around the globe can learn of your efforts as well. Send an e-mail to idleblogs (AT) yahoo.com and let us know you exist and we'll be happy to send the world your way.
Billy
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THANKS to everyone at Blogsboro! We're fortunate in Guilford County to have such a vibrant visual and performing arts community. We owe the revitalization of downtown Greensboro to the arts and it is a rapidly expanding segment of our economy. High Point managed to maintain a vibrant downtown center due in large part to the establishment of arts venues in the city center.
Not only do the arts contribute directly to our economy, but they improve the quality of life and attract businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals to our community.
What the arts do for our KIDS is even more impressive. Higher grades; higher test scores; fewer discipline problems; etc. All of these benefits were shown in a GCS study in 1997. Those findings were confirmed on a bigger scale in a statewide Texas study in 2007.
Save GCS Arts! formed when parents, professors, visual artists, performing artists, musicians, teachers, business persons and community leaders all came together to ask the schools to restore instructional time in the arts that was lost in 2007-08 and to ask for an arts curriculum coordinator.
With the help of the great citizens of Guilford County and groups like Blogsboro, it seems that much progress is being made.
THANK YOU BLOGSBORO!